Crostini with Walnut-Blue cheese

(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)

Source: Southern Living

Categories: Appitizers- snacks

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup Mazola Canola Oil
  • 2 garlic gloves, pressed
  • 1 (8oz.) French baguette, cut diagonally into 1/4-inch-thick slices
  • 1 (8oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
  • 1 (4 oz.) pkg. crumbled blue cheese
  • 2 Tbsp. whipping cream or milk
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts or almonds, toasted and divided
  • 1 cup seedless red grapes, coarsely chopped

Directions

  1. Stir together oil and garlic; brush evenly on bread slices. Place bread on a baking sheet.
  2. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes or until lightly toasted.
  3. Stir together cream cheese, blue cheese and whipping cream until blended. Stir in 1/2 cup walnuts; gently fold in grapes.
  4. Shape cheese mixture into 1 (9-inch) log. Roll log in remaining 1/2 cup walnuts. Serve with crostini.

  5. makes 1 (9-inch) log

  6. Note: 4 oz. port wine cheese, crumbled, may be substituted for blue cheese.

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